Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made engagements to sing at Newton within a week of each other. This caused considerable rivalry and not a little ill feeling among those who had the matter in charge, and the partisans of each college went to work vigorously to make their concert the more successful. Even the local papers took sides. The Journal called attention to the fact that it was not the Yale 'Varsity Glee Club, but the Apollo Club, which was advertised to sing at Newton, and predicted that Amherst would give the better entertainment. The Graphic replied by publishing an article which, with delightful modesty...
...nine to play with professionals. The result of the investigation was the almost universal acknowledgment by the graduates that the present system was unjust to the students. A fair statement of the case to the faculty was therefore decided upon. In order to show that the movement was not local and was not confined to a few men, the signatures of over two hundred of the older graduates were collected. The idea originated with the Harvard Club of New York; It was distinctly a graduate movement, and has been carried out without the assistance and knowledge of the undergraduates...
...York Local Committee on Harvard Examinations for Women has offered a scholarship of three hundred dollars as a prize to the candidate who shall pass the examination in New York with the highest credit. The scholarship is intended as an inducement chiefly to those women who desire to use the money for the purpose of pursuing their studies during the coming year at any college chosen by them and approved by the above named committee. A fund for a second scholarship of a similar nature is now being raised. The examinations will be held in the rooms of the Young...
...prospect of federal aid has already, in some places in the South, diminished local exertion in support of schools; and the result of the aid proposed by the Blair Bill would be to dwarf the energies of the States.- Saulsbury in Congressional Record, Vol. 17, part II., pp. 1945-1946; Senator Ingalls, abid...
...times three Harvard cheers. He said that what impressed him most as he looked around at the guests was the diversity of views held by the Harvard men present. He believed that the college did not teach men to think alike. Since the war Harvard has ceased to be local and sectarian, for every denomination and every school of economy is represented...